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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Manvir Singh |Kelsey Osgood |Pico Iyer |Catherine Nixey
Novelists Lippmann (Lech) and Rogoff (The Castle) take up the midrashic “practice of interpretive engagement with scripture” in this stimulating collection of unorthodox takes on Torah stories.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
“The Goddess English can empower Dalits, giving them a chance to break free from centuries of oppression,” her creator, the prominent Dalit writer Chandra Bhan Prasad, declared. He saw English as an immensely valuable resource for the Dalit. “Will English-speaking Dalits be expected to clean gutters and roads?” he asked.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the colors of Halloween—using traps made out of coffee cans and chicken flesh. Behavioral biologists are fascinated by burying beetles because of their biparental model of care: males and females prepare meaty balls from carcasses and then coöperatively raise larvae on them.
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May 6, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
To name something—to separate it from the rest of existence and bestow a label on it—is a foundational act. It is the beginning of understanding and control. In Genesis, the first thing God did after splitting light from darkness was to call the light “day” and the darkness “night.” After Adam was created and let loose in the Garden of Eden, his original job was human label-maker.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
Millions of people have watched Mike Hughes die. It happened on February 22, 2020, not far from Highway 247 near the Mojave Desert city of Barstow, California. A homemade rocket ship with Hughes strapped in it took off from a launching pad mounted on a truck. A trail of steam billowed behind the rocket as it swerved and then shot upward, a detached parachute unfurling ominously in its wake.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of desert people. We see Chalamet as the embodiment of charismatic fury: every facial muscle clenched in tension, his voice strained and throaty and commanding.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
Not everyone understood why the Pontiff was there. A caterer at a banquet for the Vatican entourage asked a Times reporter, “What are Catholics again?” But the Pope came prepared.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
einpresswire.com | Manvir Singh
Jason T. Brown, Esquire, Chair of Brown, LLC - Nationally Acclaimed Whistleblower Law FirmUNITED STATES, October 19, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Brown, LLC, a leading whistleblower law firm, announced another False Claims Act settlement, that involved a case concerning alleged Medicare fraud unbundling. The case was against Genomic Health, Inc.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
einpresswire.com | Manvir Singh
Jason T. Brown, Esquire, Chair of Brown, LLC - Nationally Acclaimed Whistleblower Law FirmUNITED STATES, October 3, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. Rajendra Bothra, an interventional pain management specialist in Michigan, along with his medical entities, The Pain Center USA, PLLC, and Interventional Pain Center, PLLC, have reached a settlement with the federal government to pay $6.5 million to resolve claims related to violations of the federal False Claims Act without admitting any liability.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Manvir Singh
Within eight months, the Liver King had amassed a million and a half followers on Instagram and nearly three million on TikTok. He was mellow at first, but he embraced the new persona, growing crasser and more meme-worthy, and less clothed. (On a podcast in March, 2022, he said that the Liver King “broke out of his cage, and he fucking ate Brian Johnson.”) Most of his videos centered on eating meat, lifting heavy stuff, and doing punishing, unorthodox workouts.
